Poem Category: Ships & Oceans

Port customs
shadows of us shuffling
along the wharf.

Whales around us …
along repeated highways
migrating south.

Surf breaks
stretching for a gold bottle top
the tumbled boy.

Sunset isle
palms wave
the gull’s goodbye.

The whale dives …
a silence descends
between us.

Coffee on deck …
dolphins surfing
the bright sunshine.

Whale family
between oceans
in the ice of the world.

Dawn
showing the pacific off
to the island tourists.

All sunset
the sea’s horizon
is the same sliced orange.

Cruise ship table
her smile to the waiter
tainting my white wine.